# Craigslist rants: part deux **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 10, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938 "2010-05-10T17:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/41 "2010-05-12T17:07:49Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > It’s got nothing on the couch 5000. Couch 5000 is in a category all its own. > [@thirdname](#): > > Another thing I hate is when people list items at $1 in the price field, then asking for hundreds of dollars in the body of the ad. I often flag those as spam, and occasionally I’ve written an email demanding that they sell the stuff for $1 since that’s what they are listing it at. I came back to this thread to bitch about this exact thing! They often do this when they’re selling multiple items which (I guess?) makes them think it’s okay. Put an accurate range, d-bags! I avoid these idiots by placing a minimum of $5 to weed out the lying shit sacks who put $1 in the cost field. I flag them as spam all the time. All Craig’s List buyers should start doing this in an effort to stamp out this kind of blatant lying douchebaggery. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/42 "2010-05-12T19:48:00Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Too much? There’s [this classic](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/ele/1735166108.html). It’s probably missing the original bicentennial eagles that once adorned the cabinet. Ha! I got practically the same TV with my house. By “got”, I mean “it was non-negotiable that they would not move out this behemoth from down the basement stairs”. I posted it a couple times in the free section before I got someone willing to take it for free. _I considered myself lucky_ that they were willing to move it up about eight stairs and put it in their car. I had expected to have to pay someone. Well, to be fair, I had plenty of respondents, but none were willing to try actually moving the thing themselves. I had a few people who tried getting me to lug it for them, put it in their car for them, and still take it for free (no), and one guy who kept insisting that he was disabled and I had to bring it to his house and set it up for him because he’s so cold and lonely and has nothing for entertainment (besides, apparently, the ability to email me about ten seconds after each email…). ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/43 "2010-05-12T21:11:00Z")
[You have got to be fucking kidding](http://buffalo.craigslist.org/ele/1737389325.html). NEW 19" CRT televisions were in the sub-$100 range about five years ago, in their dying days. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/44 "2010-05-12T21:56:23Z")
Not to sound like an idiot, but what is the couch 5000? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/45 "2010-05-12T22:28:36Z")
It was an essay that made the “profashoneal cleanars” post look like beautifully cogent prose. Possibly (tragically) lost to the sands of time now. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/46 "2010-05-12T22:48:38Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Not to sound like an idiot, but what is the couch 5000? Heh, I’d actually be taken aback if you _did_ know what Couch 5000 was. It’s a five year old inside joke between me and the poster above involving an honor’s high school student’s piece of, shall we say, expository writing that involved numerous spelling and grammatical errors about a futuristic sofa. A comedy goldmine it was. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/47 "2010-05-12T23:05:04Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > The ones that bug me are the ones where no effort went into making the ad at all. > > “I have some headphones. They’re good. $40” > > “Computer monitor. 3 years old. $75” > > No picture, model number, even brand or basic information. It boggles me that people can’t spend literally about 45 seconds adding some basic info to it. I can sort of understand not wanting to put much work into something you’re planning to sell for $40. But people do this shit for cars, too! “Blue Honda Civic - $3500. Great car, runs good.” Uhm, model year? Trim level? Mileage? And I’m constantly annoyed that people write their ads like they’re newspaper classfieds, you know: “98 BMW 330i Cp, 59K, A/C PW PL PD N/S S.O. call for TD” You can eventually figure that shit out, but fuck, man. You’re not paying by the character. Use your words. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/48 "2010-05-13T01:37:30Z")
I just wish there were an alternate-reality Craigslist with no hookers in the “Casual Encounters” section. Only ponies. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/49 "2010-05-13T14:48:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I just wish there were an alternate-reality Craigslist with no hookers in the “Casual Encounters” section. Only ponies. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938/50 "2010-05-14T03:21:18Z")
Here’s more overpricing idiocy: I looked for a hard drive, thinking a used drive would be OK for using as a backup drive or for storing music files, because I wouldn’t be using the drive every day. People are charging more for GB used (albeit at smaller sizes) than what new drives cost. One guy is offering a pair of IDE drives, 60 and 80 GB, for $75 when a brand-new terabyte with enclosure costs $100. And he says “add $5 for each drive if you want me to test.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-rants-part-deux/538938.md?page=2)